Descripción

Hello we are a family of 5 living in a nice home on Vancouver Island. We live in Cowichan Bay British Columbia.
We are an adventurous family that love the outdoors and like to enjoy things around us as well as travel. We have travelled to over 20 countries as a family and we love to meet new people. Our kids are 7, 8 and 11 we are both in our mid 30s
On the weekends we like to enjoy exploring around the area and you would be welcome to join us most times.

Tipo de ayuda

Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

You will learn what it is like to be in a family in BC. Our kids attend a Waldorf school. We have some friends with farms that you will meet and be able to experience how they live through conversations. We like to get out of the house on the weekends so you are welcome to come along some of the time on our adventures and learn to catch crab or follow along on a hike.
We have travelled all over the world so we can share our experiences with you about travelling to many countries from our perspective.

Ayuda

We are looking for someone to help out with the daily tasks of life with kids and running a household. looking for help with the children, putting them to bed some nights, help making lunches and with other things the. Laundry, cleaning gardening and cooking. We may have a few other random tasks here and there like yard work.
Since our kids are in school the weekday is fairly scheduled with getting them to and from school and the daily tasks with running a family. Durning the day you will be doing most of your 5 hours. The days you are on cooking duty or babysitting some of the hours will then be in the evening.
We like to go out as a couple about once or sometimes twice a week, so you would be watching the children durning this time and putting them to bed. Possibly there will be a night or two we will be gone till the morning or following day.

Idiomas hablados

English, French

Alojamiento

We have a spare bedroom in our basement with a bed and a side table. We do not have a ton of furnishings at this point as we just moved to the area. We also have a second bathroom on the upper floor that you will have access to.
We are right in the town of cowichan bay. You can walk to the village in 10 minutes with a handful of shops and restaurants coffe shop, convenient store. There is a bus stop close by. We would also be able to drive you places if it works out timing wise.
We eat mostly organic food, we eat meat but not everyday.

We only require you to work the days you are here. If you are here 7 days a week sleeping and eating food here then you will help out all 7 days. The days off are flexible, does not have to be on the weekend if you want days off. If you want to go somewhere for a few days or a week that is no problem just let us know. Also would be responsible for your own meals if we are eating outside the home.

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There are many things to do around here in your downtime
any water sport you may be interested in
lots of farms to visit
over 20 wineries and breweries within 30 minutes of here
many beautiful hikes to go on.
If you are away for a few days you could go to some other beautiful places like Tofino, Victoria or even venture out on a long weekend to Vancouver or Whistler.
This is a very outdoors place to live, so if you are in to outdoors exploring this is the place to visit

I spent about one and a half months at their house and I had a very good time. This was my first Workaway experience, so i did not really know what to expect. But from day one the Carere family welcomed me very nice and made my stay a great experience.
I always worked in the morning and in the afternoon we always did something together.
The kids… read more as well as the parents are very nice and funny and it was always fun to hang out with them. Nick and Julie always made sure I was comfortable so I always felt welcome and good in their house. The work I had to do was never too hard and they always made sure that I wouldn’t work too much in one day.
They have a very nice house close to the water with beautiful nature around it. They took me to a lot of places and I met some very nice friends of them. I got a great insight on how Canadien people live and on the canadien culture.
All in all I am very thankful for the opportunity to stay at their house and for all they did for me and will always remember it as a very exciting and great time.
Wishing all of them five nothing but the best for the future!

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23/09/2019

Dejado por el workawayer (Adam) para el anfitrión

What a great experience!
It was not easy to leave this family. A family that made feel more than welcome. A family I called "my Canadian family" now. Because it was much more than just a host family!
But I didn't dissapear from their life and they didn't dissapear from mine - we keep in touch and planning new adventures!

We explored so many… read more beautiful places and we did so many things tohether, sooooo many. I really appreciate it and I will never forget!
Hiking, biking, camping, playing games,...... (it would be a super-long list)

All the kids are well behaved, funny, active.

There is literally no problem I could mention. So I definately recommend this family for other "active" workawayers! You will not regret that.

I would highly recommend Adam as a workawayer to anyone, although we would like to have him come back to our home. Adam stayed with us for 6 weeks summer 2019. Adam helped out with cooking, cleaning, daily tasks and watching our kids. Adam was willing to do anything that we asked him to do without hesitation. After only a few days he also started… read more to feel like part of the family and when he was not working, just wanted to hang out with us. We ended up taking him to many events, hikes and camping trips while he was here. He is a great guy to just hang out with and would be willing to do any outdoor activity you have in mind. He has become a great friend and we truly miss him being in our home.